Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank Sams Publishing for recognizing the gold in JXTA and funding one of the first books on the subject. In addition, I'd like to thank the production staff and technical editors who helped produce a very professional book.

This book would not be possible without the input and encouragement of Sun Microsystems and the JXTA open-source community. The community is the key to JXTA, and this book is a result of the selfless contributions of the individuals and corporations involved.

The production of this book also owes thanks to the NetBeans open-source community and their NetBeans IDE, which was used to create and debug most of the examples (www.NetBeans.org). In addition, I would like to thank No Magic Inc. for their gracious granting of a free copy of MagicDraw (www.MagicDraw.com) used for the object analysis of JXTA and the creation of most of the UML diagrams.